Buying or Selling in 2020

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Do any of you have plans to buy or sell any ukuleles in 2020? I never plan to buy, but then something turns up, and I can't resist. I have no plans to buy, but I would like to sell some.

I feel a poll coming on - for last year.
 
I’ve no buying planned beyond the ones that are already ordered (a Bonanza Homestead baritone that should arrive this week) and a GoldTone Microbass that should arrive EOM). I’d like a 5-string bass and a uke bass with round wounds. I’m fighting them, but those are the likely areas I’d succumb to GAS.

I sold a uke and a couple of guitars in December and I have a couple more (two sopranos, and possibly a concert) that I’m not playing that I should move out. The Homestead and Microbass may push out my current baritone and ubass.
 
I'm planning to sell a few this year. Those may include a Pono Concert, a couple of Pono Tenors, a Blackbird Farallon, and maybe a couple of K-brand ukes.

I also have too many guitars, and plan to sell my Martin D-18 and 000-18, and maybe a classical guitar or two.
 
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I have no plans, but there's an auction house just up the road from me which runs specialist musical instrument auctions. There's always the possibility that something will catch my eye. A couple did last year, but both went for a price above what I bid.
 
I rarely plan to buy. It just happens when something appears that triggers my UAS.

I do need to sell some this year. But it's hard to decide which ones. I've donated three tenors. Thinking about selling a couple of Ponos. Tiny Tenor? A Kala Elite? Maybe a Moodyville? An Opio? I just don't play them very often. Arrgh!

Definitely an Ohana & a KM soprano. I bought for other people, and they decided to go guitar instead.

Decisions, decisions. A good problem to have I suppose. :confused:
 
Don't really plan on buying another uke for now, but I'd like a Beltona Resonator to try out and a longneck soprano with a radiused neck to try as well........yea never know when the $$$, the instruments, and the stars will aline for a buy......

What I need to do is work on my skills.......that's my plan for now....
 
I'm planning on selling (or donating) ukuleles that I no longer play. While I have no plans to buy any new instruments this year, one never knows when an irresistible opportunity might present itself.
 
I don't have plans to buy or sell this year. I hope to concentrate on playing the ones I already have. I should be getting the Bonanza Homestead I ordered at the end of Nov. '19 by the end of this month. I'll then have 6 ukes, the majority of which were unplanned buys. I've exceeded my unplanned buys allotment so if anything I'd be a seller but I probably won't be doing that either.
 
I have only 4 Martins sopranos waiting for rescue platform. When my new knee can stand for hours at the operating table they will be forthcoming.
 
In 2019, I bought one uke and ten or so other stringed instruments.

Gave away a tiny electric guitar and a mandolin for Christmas gifts.

For 2020 I have made it my resolution to lighten my load in many ways and to stop collecting more stuff than I can use.

So I'll be moving three to five guitars. Keeping only my bari uke, mandolin, two tenor conversions, and possibly one six string.
And although I have no immediate plans to buy anything, I may end up with just one more baritone uke with a wider and longer neck. At which point I may move my current uke along.

This could all change and I could sell or give it all away and get a bazouki as I have become fascinated with the look and possibilities with the lower tuned sound of the custom wide neck octave mandolin in this video. https://youtu.be/pjpRTkHIBLA
And less so the look of this skinner necked version, but the sound is equally inspiring. And I like saying "bazouki". https://youtu.be/JluqUpjHb3I
Finding a wide neck Irish bazouki is probably way down the road. But something to keep an eye out for
 
Jerryc41 said:
Do any of you have plans to buy or sell any ukuleles in 2020? I never plan to buy, but then something turns up, and I can't resist. I have no plans to buy, but I would like to sell some.

I feel a poll coming on - for last year.
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Neither. I have nothing I need and I hate accumulating anything that I won't use regularly.
 
Nope, no plans to do either. I'm good with what I have for now.
 
This.....
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PetalumaRescuke said:
I have only 4 Martins sopranos waiting for rescue platform. When my new knee can stand for hours at the operating table they will be forthcoming.
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And as Dave knows, I hope to rescue one of them! Best of health to Dave and his new knee!
 
For me the fun of buying and selling uke's is something that I don't think I'll stop. I generally have four ukulele's that I own/play though. A soprano, a tenor, a concert plus something else that I'm experimenting with.

I'm pretty happy with my uke's at the moment but it means I'll most probably end up selling one of my uke's this year and buying another.
 
No plans to buy or sell...but you never know.

I'm very happy with what I have, don't have anything particular on my wish list...but I still enjoy "window shopping", (from Windows), online, so who knows where that could lead. I've narrowed down what works for me, though, so my days of experimenting with different sizes, necks, etc. are over.
 
Not planning to buy any more ukuleles this year but I'm on the verge of buying a classical guitar, so I'm curious as to whether it will displace the need for my baritone. I'm down one uke from a year ago, but not quite a minimalist yet ...
 
Since I've been playing, I've only sold one uke - an Epiphone Les Paul Concert - because Ivan was looking for one, and I has two.

I never intend to, or expect to, buy a new instrument. Which is why I've acquired 4 or 5 ukes, a banjo uke, and a bass uke over the course of the past 2 years.

Que sera sera.


-Kurt​
 
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